The Sinews Of War

Author : Laleh Khalili
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786634818

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Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili Pdf

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore – indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone. Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula’s ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa. From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.

Author : James A. Huston
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Logistics
ISBN : 0160899141

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The Sinews of War by James A. Huston Pdf

Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134998524

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The Sinews of Power by John Brewer Pdf

First published in 1989. `The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review.

Author : Benjamin Bacon
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015039052496

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Sinews of War by Benjamin Bacon Pdf

Reveals the story of the transport of infantry regiments, artillery, and supplies to the battlefield during the Civil War, showing how the war was really won. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kathleen Burk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317700517

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Britain, America and the Sinews of War 1914-1918 (RLE The First World War) by Kathleen Burk Pdf

Anglo-American relations were transformed during the First World War. Britain was already in long-term economic decline relative to the United States, but this decline was accelerated by the war, which was militarily a victory for Britain, but economically a catastrophe. This book sets out the economic, and in particular, the financial relations between the two powers during the war, setting it in the context of the more familiar political and diplomatic relationship. Particular attention is paid to the British war missions sent out to the USA, which were the agents for much of the financial and economic negotiation, and which are rescued here from underserved historical obscurity.

Author : William D. Godsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198809395

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The Sinews of Habsburg Power by William D. Godsey Pdf

The Sinews of Habsburg Power traces the development of the central European Habsburg monarchy into one of early modern Europe's leading powers. In particular, it looks to the domestic foundations of that power, which were upheld by the growth of a permanent standing army.

Author : Adam Tooze
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141040929

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The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze Pdf

Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation. Was the tragedy of the Second World War determined by Nazi Germany's terrifying power, or by its fatal weakness? This gripping and universally-acclaimed new history tells the real story of the cost of Hitler's plans for world domination - and will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Third Reich. 'A tour de force' Niall Ferguson 'Masterful ... smashes a gallery of preconceptions' The Times 'This book will change the way we look at Nazi history ... nothing less than a masterpiece. Rejoice, rejoice, for a great historian is born' Sunday Telegraph 'A remarkable and gripping revision of the history of Nazi Germany' New Statesman Books of the Year 'A powerful and provocative reassessment of the whole story' Richard Overy

Author : Juan Wang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190605735

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The Sinews of State Power by Juan Wang Pdf

"Based on original fieldwork, The Sinews of State Power seeks to understand continuous rural instability in China despite national reforms in the post-2000s. It offers a fresh perspective by revisiting the fundamental components of a capable government -a coherent and robust local leadership, and tracing its rise and demise since the Maoist era"--

Author : Anna-Lisa Cox
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610398114

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The Bone and Sinew of the Land by Anna-Lisa Cox Pdf

The long-hidden stories of America's black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for the heart of the nation When black settlers Keziah and Charles Grier started clearing their frontier land in 1818, they couldn't know that they were part of the nation's earliest struggle for equality; they were just looking to build a better life. But within a few years, the Griers would become early Underground Railroad conductors, joining with fellow pioneers and other allies to confront the growing tyranny of bondage and injustice. The Bone and Sinew of the Land tells the Griers' story and the stories of many others like them: the lost history of the nation's first Great Migration. In building hundreds of settlements on the frontier, these black pioneers were making a stand for equality and freedom. Their new home, the Northwest Territory--the wild region that would become present-day Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin--was the first territory to ban slavery and have equal voting rights for all men. Though forgotten today, in their own time the successes of these pioneers made them the targets of racist backlash. Political and even armed battles soon ensued, tearing apart families and communities long before the Civil War. This groundbreaking work of research reveals America's forgotten frontier, where these settlers were inspired by the belief that all men are created equal and a brighter future was possible. Named one of Smithsonian's Best History Books of 2018

Author : Philip White
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610390606

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Our Supreme Task by Philip White Pdf

The year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves in the grip of the Soviets. The Red Army occupied a large German territory, and the Kremlin was manipulating post-war food shortages, labor disputes, and social unrest in Greece, France, and Italy. Having spent his “wilderness years” in the late 1930s warning of the dangers of diplomatic and military weakness and the growing menace of Nazism, in 1946 Churchill made a trip to Fulton, Missouri, to deliver a speech entitled “The Sinews of Peace”—now known as the Iron Curtain Speech—which served to fundamentally define the dangers of Soviet totalitarian Communism. This is the story of that pivotal speech and how it came to be given, and a portrait of the irrepressible man who delivered it.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9786056849268

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The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents. Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that is so dissimilar, as civilian life is from the military. Whence it is often observed, if anyone designs to avail himself of an enlistment in the army, that he soon changes, not only his clothes, but also his customs, his habits, his voice, and in the presence of any civilian custom, he goes to pieces; for I do not believe that any man can dress in civilian clothes who wants to be quick and ready for any violence; nor can that man have civilian customs and habits, who judges those customs to be effeminate and those habits not conducive to his actions; nor does it seem right to him to maintain his ordinary appearance and voice who, with his beard and cursing, wants to make other men afraid: which makes such an opinion in these times to be very true. But if they should consider the ancient institutions, they would not find matter more united, more in conformity, and which, of necessity, should be like to each other as much as these (civilian and military); for in all the arts that are established in a society for the sake of the common good of men, all those institutions created to (make people) live in fear of the laws and of God would be in vain, if their defense had not been provided for and which, if well arranged, will maintain not only these, but also those that are not well established.

Author : Jatin Dua
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520973299

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Captured at Sea by Jatin Dua Pdf

How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-first century. Taking the reader inside pirate communities in Somalia, onboard multinational container ships, and within insurance offices in London, Dua connects modern day pirates to longer histories of trade and disputes over protection. In our increasingly technological world, maritime piracy represents not only an interruption, but an attempt to insert oneself within the world of oceanic trade. Captured at Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce today.

Author : Thean Potgieter,Ian Liebenberg
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781920338848

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Reflections on War by Thean Potgieter,Ian Liebenberg Pdf

Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war ? showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.

Author : James Alvin Huston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112047636557

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The Sinews of War by James Alvin Huston Pdf

A record of the Army's experience in developing a workable and effective logistical system against the background of changing conditions in both peace and war.

Author : Christopher David Hall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : France
ISBN : 0719036062

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British Strategy in the Napoleonic War, 1803-15 by Christopher David Hall Pdf

Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian, Professor Catherine Hall, discusses new approaches to the history of empire and establishes a narrative frame through which to read the essays which follow.. The volume is clearly divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasising concepts and approaches; the colonisers 'at home', focusing on how empire was lived in Britain; and 'away' - the attempt to construct new cultures through which the colonisers defined themselves and others in varied colonial sites. A useful guide to recent scholarship on the culture of imperialism.